CHAPTER 765: CHAPTER 688: ASCEND TO THE PEAK 87

No matter which sect, the Law Enforcement Hall is undoubtedly the strongest in combat strength. It is also the best at maintaining order and calming people’s hearts. Naturally, they are kept at home to guard the main base, not just by the sect but even by the state.

This leads to lots of people capable of fighting on the front lines, but not a single person capable of interrogating spies. Indeed, whenever humans and the Demon Clan meet, it’s all about killing, killing again, and killing once more. Where would there be any spies to interrogate? Naturally, there’s no need to equip talents for this aspect.

But if these people are sent back, such a huge number of them could be rescued if ambushed by a martial master like Tan Shuangshuang. That would be very frustrating, leaving everyone in a dilemma for a moment.

While everyone found it hard to decide, Tan Shuangshuang had a sudden inspiration. She caught an impersonator captured by the army, probed the person’s Spirit Mansion, and then she saw a Core that only the Demon Clan would have within!

Sure enough, Tan Shuangshuang had previously thought that these half-demon, half-human people had some connection with the group from the Secret Realm. This time, the Disguise Technique used by the impersonators found by General Shang and the Five Great Sects was exactly the same as the one used by the people caught in the Secret Realm. Coupled with the Demon Clan Core within their bodies, all these proved that the Demon Clan had long stretched their tentacles in before attacking humans!

This is a huge conspiracy, larger than anyone imagined. There’s no need to study how to dispose of these people anymore. To be safe, they should be locked in the military camp first, with a special underground cell created for them, and a message sent back to the Baiyue Country Capital to ask the Emperor to send experts skilled in interrogation over.

The subsequent matters were no longer under Tan Shuangshuang’s control. She returned just as the Demon Clan’s attack ended during a period of rest for both sides. Tan Shuangshuang went straight to find her brother, Tan Feiyu, and took the chance to visit Fei Hu at Bai Sheng’s place.

She had been away for several days, leaving Tan Feiyu and Fei Hu to fight on the battlefield. Tan Shuangshuang had been worried sick about them. Only by seeing that Tan Feiyu and Fei Hu were fine with her own eyes could she set her mind at ease.

And indeed, Tan Shuangshuang was in for two surprises. When she saw Tan Feiyu, he had broken through several small realms and was now a Sixth Rank Great Martial Artist. The surprise from Fei Hu was even greater. In the days Tan Shuangshuang was gone, Fei Hu finally found a way to refine his own Horizontal Bone.

Although Fei Hu’s cultivation wasn’t bad, he was still young, and after refining the Horizontal Bone, his voice remained a soft, tender little cub sound. Seeing Tan Shuangshuang arrive, Fei Hu immediately leaped up joyfully, calling out in a tender voice, "Mommy, Fei Hu missed you so much!"

Tan Shuangshuang, just having embraced Fei Hu thoroughly, was thunderstruck by this "Mommy" call. She almost dropped the big cat, Tuantuan, in her arms. Her, a maiden all her previous and current life, was now delighted to become a mother!

However, Tan Shuangshuang only took a moment before accepting this title. In fact, when she thought about it carefully, she truly had no difference from Fei Hu’s mother.

Fei Hu’s birth was attended by her own hands, delivering him from his mother’s belly. She raised him from a physically underdeveloped little baby that was only palm-sized and couldn’t even suckle, with efforts no less than raising a child.

She worried he wouldn’t survive, worried he wouldn’t develop well, worried he wouldn’t be able to fight, raising him amidst a heap of anxieties, teaching him hand in hand how to fight, how to grow. This furry tuft was genuinely no different from her own child.

Not only did Tan Shuangshuang quickly accept being called "Mommy" by Fei Hu, but even Tan Feiyu, who came along with her, was just surprised for a moment before accepting the fact that Fei Hu called his sister "Mommy."

Tan Feiyu had watched with his own eyes how Tan Shuangshuang meticulously raised this small tiger, smaller than a cat cub at birth. It was even more attentive than how their parents had raised him. Tan Feiyu had long felt that Tan Shuangshuang treated Fei Hu as her son, so now it was just formalized.

After being stunned, Tan Shuangshuang was overjoyed, picking up Fei Hu excitedly, saying, "Fei Hu, you’ve finally learned to speak!"

Fei Hu nodded his furry little head, showing a smile on his adorable furry face, with a tender voice that revealed two parts of shyness, saying, "I don’t even know how I refined the Horizontal Bone; one day I suddenly started talking. Mommy, am I a bit dumb for not even knowing how I refined the Horizontal Bone?" Hearing this, Fei Hu’s fluffy ears drooped down pitifully.

Tan Shuangshuang couldn’t bear Fei Hu’s expression, immediately kissed his furry little head, and praised, "Who says my Fei Hu is dumb? Fei Hu is clearly a particularly smart child. Otherwise, how could he have refined the Horizontal Bone so easily?"

"Is that so?" Fei Hu tilted his furry head and asked doubtfully. After receiving a positive nod from Tan Shuangshuang, Fei Hu turned his head to look at Tan Feiyu, asking in a tender voice, "Uncle, am I really not dumb?"

Tan Feiyu had always favored Fei Hu. When Fei Hu was mischievous as a child and Tan Shuangshuang punished him by not allowing him to eat snacks, Tan Feiyu would secretly give him treats behind her back.

Later, wherever Tan Feiyu went, he always had delicious snacks in his pocket, always afraid of meeting Fei Hu without anything to give, typically spending most of his pocket money on Fei Hu’s mouth. If Tan Shuangshuang could be considered a somewhat strict mother, then Tan Feiyu was the uncle who spoiled the child.

Now, with one call of "Uncle" from Fei Hu, Tan Feiyu was elated, not willing to dampen Fei Hu’s spirits at all, just praising Fei Hu to the skies alongside Tan Shuangshuang.

Bai Sheng quietly lay to the side, watching Fei Hu joyfully calling out "Mommy" and "Uncle," with warmth in his eyes. He had long since acknowledged that Tan Shuangshuang’s love for Fei Hu was worthy of being called "Mommy" by Fei Hu, having heard Fei Hu talk about her every day.

In fact, the Winged Tiger Clan is exclusive and protective, never accepting outsiders, not even other Tiger Clan members, let alone humans. If any stray Winged Tiger cubs were found, they would be taken back to be raised within the Winged Tiger Clan, not allowing outsiders, or even Magic Beasts, to interfere at all.

But there is an exception: if a Winged Tiger cub genuinely likes someone and that person is truly kind to the cub, an exception can be made.

Fei Hu and Tan Shuangshuang have a contract, but Tan Shuangshuang used an equal contract, which only has the ability to sense each other, with no other abilities.

Moreover, there’s the mark left on Tan Shuangshuang by Fei Hu’s mother before her death. The strength of the Winged Tiger Clan allows their Spiritual Sense to remain active for a long time after death. This active Spiritual Sense’s greatest use is to leave a mark, which can’t be sensed by humans but can be sensed by the Winged Tiger Clan.